May
23- 26th, 2003
Schedule of films only, not events. Check back for final info on May 19th.
12
-4 PM Friday May 23rd
Prostitution
Issues for Service Providers: An Educational Forum
Sponsored
by Harm Reduction Coalition and Center for Young Women's Development
An
afternoon of films and discussion addressing issues for those living on
the fringes of the underground economies.
We
will address two themes the experience of youth in sex trade and/or drug
culture and the other on violence against prostitutes (both locally and
in other locales). Both themes intertwine and our panelists will cover
a range of subjects relating to these themes. This show will specifically
address issues of class, age and racial discrimination and stereotyping.
Our panelists will discuss these aspects of the videos: How do these videos
reinforce, illuminate, and dispel stereotypes. We are inviting a range
of individuals who have a great deal of experience with these issues, from
a first person perspective or as experts in these fields.
Panelists
include filmmakers as well as Leslie Bull, Jaysin, Duran Ruiz, Amy Donovan,
Emily Stern AKA Spider and others TBA.
Deconstructing
Crack Ho (a memoir)
Ariel
Lightningchild (Director/Writer/Producer) In person!
Thurza
Cuthand (co-editor/camera)
One
woman tells it like it is examining her experience as a survivalist sex
worker and sexually exploited youth. (Canada, 7min.-2001)
Street
Survival Project
Carol
Leigh In person!
This
"calling card" explains the principles of services and community based
advocacy by young women and for young women, from the Center for Young
Women's Development. (6 min.-1995)
Hiding
Out
Thomas
Mournian In person! & John Keitel
San
Francisco's underground railroad of Safe Houses keep kids off the street
and out of the abusive psychiatric hospitals many have escaped from (as
reported by Thomas Mournian in the Bay Guardian April 1998). (6 min.-2000)
I
was a Teenage Prostitute
Juliana
Piccillo
One
woman's story of coming of age in sex trade through an afterschool job
in a massage parlor in an archetypical American suburb. The documentary
combines interview and archival imagery to tell a story of empowerment.
(18 min.-2002)
aka
Kathe
Minda
Martin
The
saga of Mexican-American family from Tucson confronting a violent loss,
caught in the cycle of violence towards women. This disturbing video focuses
on the story of one sister who was murdered. (55 min.-2000)
"NHI
- No Humans Involved"
Deborah
Small, Elizabeth Sisco, Carla Kirkwood, Scott Kessler and Louis Hock
"NHI
- No Humans Involved" was a public art project, which took place in San
Diego in 1992. These artists produced this work to address the unsolved,
and in many cases uninvestigated, sexual assaults and murders of forty-five
San Diego women between 1985-1992. The project takes its name from a term
used by police for what they described as "...'misdemeanor murders' of
biker women and hookers."(excerpts 10 min-1992-95)
4 PM Friday, May 23rd
Sacred
Intimates, Sexual Healers, Sacred Prostitutes
Male
sex workers on an erotic spiritual path
Presented
by the New School of Erotic Touch
Featuring
“Making Love for The Whole World To See”
Directed
by Joseph Kramer In person!
This
selection of videos presented by Dr. Kramer of the New School of Erotic
Touch documents a movement that has it’s roots in the Gay community of
the Bay Area. Founded by former Jesuit, Joseph Kramer, men in San Francisco
initiated this practice in response to the AIDS crisis as “Midwives to
the Dying,” developing a sexual healing discipline, and practicing a form
of sex work that is now practiced internationally.
The
show will include a screening of “Making Love for The Whole World
to See” from the Gay Sex Wisdom Series, which consists of interviews with
sexual healers including Matthew Simmons and Keith Hennessy among others.
Selections from other works explicitly portray sexual healing and erotic
massage. Guest speakers include Sacred Intimates, men working in these
disciplines. (42 min.-2003 revision)
6
PM Friday, May 23rd
Sponsored
by Sex Workers Organized for Labor, Human and Civil Rights
Streetwise
COYOTE TV Show featuring Carol Queen and Daisy Anarchy -In person!
Excerpts
from this episode focus on sex work issues in the context of other issues
of human and labor rights. excerpts (15 min.-1998)
on
being a junkie ho in sex worker world
Penny
Arcade, Leslie Bull, Ariel Lightningchild, Steve Zehentner
Through
interviews and documentation of performance, this video addresses and complicates
issues of class, race and marginalization in sex movements. (15 min.-
2003)
Easy
Come, Easy Go
Richard
Blake (Director)
Melissa
Blake (Writer/Performer)
This
short personal work by a former worker at Show World "strips" the corporate-coating
from Gulliani's repression of New York City sex industry. (5 min. 2003)
Adventures
in the Sin Trade
Explores
power and sexuality through the lives of sex workers including issues of
class, race, and the personal experiences of local sex workers Siobahn
Brooks, Veronica Monet among others. (29 min.-2003)
Licensed
Prostitutes: Apocalypse
Sylvia
H. Feng (Executive Producer)
Tsung
Lung Tsai (Producer/Director)
Produced
in collaboration with COSWAS (Collective of Sex Workers and Supporters)
in Taiwan, this video examines the struggle for prostitutes’ rights through
the journeys of several sex workers whose lives were disrupted by the sudden
criminalization of the legal prostitution business. (Taiwan, 50 min.-2001)
8
PM Friday, May 23rd
Princesa
Henrique
Goldman
Ellis
Freeman, Henrique Goldman, Fernanda Farias de Albuquerque, Maurizio Jannelli
(Writers)
The
journey of teenage transsexual Fernanda as she heads from her native Brazil
to Italy's transsexual prostitution scene. Fernanda's most cherished desire
is to have a sex-change operation, fall in love with a man, and live the
"normal" life of an Italian woman. When a new client, Gianni (Cesare Bocci),
approaches her one night, it seems that her dreams will come true. Starring
Ingrid de Souza, Cesare Bocci, Lulu Pecorari, Mauro Pirovano and Biba Lerhue.
(Italy/Germany/UK, 93 min - 2001)
Travesti
Brad
Brough (Producer/Director)
Marco
Porsia (Camera/Editor)
Since
the early 1980's, Italy has become the destination of choice for transgendered
prostitutes from around the world. Thousands travel from South American
countries like Columbia, Venezuela and Brazil to work the lucrative streets
of major Italian cities as prostitutes. This documentary from CHUM Television's
SexTV tells a story which contrasts with most contemporary portraits of
migrant sex workers. (Canada, 23 min.-2000)
10 PM Friday, May 23rd
Global
Sex Work
Swallow
Ariel
Lightningchild (Director/Producer/Writer) In person!
James
Diamond (Lighting/Camera/Sound)
An
exploration of issues often marginalized amongst the celebration amongst
the celebration of some of the sex workers movement, such as race, class,
mental illness. (Canada, 11 min.-2002)
Sex
Work and Health in a Changing Europe
Carol
Leigh
Produced
by EUROPAP
This
short excerpt is from a DVD documenting a sex worker health and rights
conference in the UK. (United Kingdom/USA, 10 min.-2003)
Code:Red
Tadej
Pogacar, P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E Museum
Comitato
per i Diritti Civili delle Prostitute
This
video montage juxtaposes assorted found footage with an analysis of prostitution
by Carla Corso, long time Italian sex worker activist. The video is part
of a larger project, screened as an installation. "CODE:RED (1999-2004)
is an on going project which investigates and discusses the aspects of
prostitution and sexual work as a specific form of parallel economy. It
researches analogue economic models: those of isolated groups and social
minorities. The project uses real and virtual spaces and takes the form
of an open dialogue between artists, sex workers and the public in selected
urban environments and local contexts." htttp://www.parasite-pogacar.si
(Slovenia, 8 min.-1999/2002)
A
Day in the Life of a Sex Worker -U.S. Premiere!
Sex
Workers' Forum of Kerala
This
video was made as part of an international sex worker art project in which
sex workers were given equipment and support to make videos about their
lives and concerns. This short video is a straightforward, gentle
portrait of an ordinary day in the life of one woman. Sex Workers' Forum
of Kerala. (India, 7 min, 2002)
Negotiating
Sex Workers' Rights: Calcutta 1997--World Premiere! In person!
C.J.
Roessler
A
video montage based on footage acquired by Roessler at the Calcutta Sex
Worker's Conference in November 1997. The text of this video is based on
the Sex Worker's Manifesto, a document composed by the DMSC (Durbar Mahila
Samanya Committee or the Durbar Women's Collaborative Committee). DMSC
demands decriminalization of adult sex work and the right to form a trade
union. (10 min.-2003)
Tales
of the Night Fairies -U.S. Premiere!
Shohini
Ghosh
Sabeena
Gadihoke (Camera) Shohini Ghosh & Shikha Sen (Editing)
Five
sexworkers - four women and one man - along with the filmmaker/narrator
embark on a journey of storytelling. Tales of the Night Fairies explores
the power of collective organizing and resistance while reflecting upon
contemporary debates around sexwork. The simultaneously expansive
and labyrinthine city of Calcutta forms the backdrop for the personal and
musical journeys of storytelling. (India, 74 min.-2003).
12 Midnight, Friday, May 23rd
Good
Vibrations presents Midnight Sexsational Show
featuring
an electrifying selection of new and vintage porn hosted by Carol Queen.
Clips
include the best, juiciest excerpts curated by Dr. Queen.
See
our local porn stars in Sex Positive Productions' Voluptuous Vixens and
clips from Libido's Urban Friction and many more. At Good Vibrations, "we
believe that sexual pleasure is everyone's birthright" so join us in this
late night pursuit of pleasure!"
12 Noon, Saturday, May 24th
Sex Art Show
Matzo
Maidels
Jenni
Olson, Julie Dorf & Monica Nolan (Directors)
Brooklyn
Bloomberg and friends do some steamy kibbutzing in this fascinating piece
of Yiddish-keit, circa 1923. Rare 16mm archival porn footage is overlaid
with a hilarious Jewish porno voiceover — sprinkled with colloquial Yiddishisms.
Written and performed by San Francisco artist Dori Midnight (aka Brooklyn
Bloomberg), Matzo Maidels is a wildly entertaining short that’s sure to
amuse audiences of all persuasions.
"Oy
vey! I laughed 'til I peed!" --Annie Sprinkle, nice Jewish slut (5min.-2003)
Girl
and Her Wild Ass
Rosy
Boyer
Video
technology competes with nostalgia in this soft core porn that refuses
to claim a genre. (3:40 min.-2002)
Orange
Blossom
Everett
Orbit In person with Indigo Blue!
Animation,
a moist analog treat for your digital burlesque appetite. Featuring Indigo
Blue from Burly Q Queer cabaret. (3 min.-2003
Scrub
A.
Takeuchi and R. Schmidt 4:15 min 2001
Interesting
Productions
starring
Alexis Smart
Music
by Norm Arnold and His Mondo Combo with Miss Carolyn Edwards
Cleaning
can be very erotic if you happen to be a gorgeous blonde. Reminiscent of
TV commercials for cleansers, but much more fun.
Chronicles
of an Asthmatic Stripper
By
Sarah Lapp and Mark Dresser
A
collaboration between filmmaker Sarah Jane Lapp and contrabassist Mark
Dresser,
this film chronicles the day in the life of an asthmatic stripper whose
every
inhalation is both inhalation and occupation. The film, composed of 1500
ink, wax and gouache drawings, initially toured internationally with the
Mark DresserTrio with a live performance of the original score by Dresser.
Venues have included the Institute for Contemporary Art/Boston, New Langton
Center for Art/San Francisco, Webster Film Series/St. Louis, Tonic/New
York and festivals. (4 min-2002)
Ethel
James
Pam
Dore’
Starring
Liz Young, a quirky young grrl enjoys the life of pure bliss until tragedy
strikes and the musical called life plays on. (4 min-2003)
Mash
Potatos and Gravey Meditation
Maxine
Doogan
This
short tour-de-farce probably won't make you hungry, but it might make you
horny...well, a few of you...(4 min.- 2003)
1-900-ASIANPRINCESS
Danny
White (Director)
Jeff
Redd (Producer
Gennifer
M. Hirano, asianprincess (Co-director/Co-producer/writer) In person!
A
post-modern pseudo porno infomercial that sucks our expectations and
desires
in with a quick and easy breath and spits it back out at us with
self
indulgent laughter. Power is always subjective, especially in the
fantasyland
of the asianprincess.(5:20 min.-2003)
ENT-HOMO-PHILIA
Hima
B. In person!
An
experimental flick about an arthopod who's an
unsuspecting
participant in her mate's metamorphosis,
starring
Poinciana Williams & Rochelle Borquez. (10 min.-2003)
Brain
Plus World
James
Diamond (Writer/Director/Producer)
Ariel
Lightningchild (Co-producer)
Sacha
Fink (Co-producer)
This
experimental music video is about sexual disorientation. (5 min.-2001)
Hans
Object of Desire
Margie
Schnibbe In person!
Shot
in Super-8 film, a dog, a dildo, a punk rock song. Hans attempts to negotiate
subject object relativity. Music by Paul Kostabi/Youth Gone Mad.
Schibbe is a former sex worker. "Bored with nightclubs and beating up men
for a living," she fled to LA where she just completed her first commercial
feature, PORNSTAR PETS. www.babyhans.com. (2:15 min.-1995)
A
Woman’s Place is in the Kitchen
Pam
Dore' and Sprinkle Magic
A
horney housewife' enjoys a cake-baking frenzy while her husband is at work.
(5:42 min-1999)
Ecstasy
in Entropy
Nick
Zedd
Transgressive
mini-epic concerning a Marxist revolution led by cunning and corpulent
lapdancers. An agit-prop edutainment ho down featuring a bevy of warrior
lapdancers struggling to overthrow corporate state capitalism and rancid
criminal globalisation through amateur wrestling, gun juggling and anarchist
debate. Influenced by "cheesy, low-budget, Z-grade sci-fi" Nick Zedd's
'Cinema of Transgression' is exhilarating in this montage of lust and cash.
Starring Annie Sprinkle, Brenda Bergman, Taylor Mead, Bob, Jaiko Suzuki,
Nick Bohn & others. (17 min-1999)
Let
the Punishment Fit The Child
Maria
Beatty and Margie Schnibbe (Directors)
Maria
Beatty (Producer)
Two
women are bonded by strange rituals. They might be mothers and daughter
or two lovers playing games of domination submission and cruel tenderness.
Takes us on a surreal journey, shot in 16 mm film, starring Maria Beatty
and Margie Schnibbe. (18 min.-1997)
KISSY
SUZUKI SUCK
Alison
Murray
"Can
women subvert violent sexual imagery which is often used in a
flippant
or gratuitous way, in order to expose the real pain of sexual
violence?
So asks Alison Murray, director of a bold new video assaulting
issues
of pornography and sexual stereotypes. From kisses to knives to the gory
invocation of abuse, the ultimate resilience of the women struggles through.
(Australia, 20 min.-1992)
Zom
Chi
Chelsea
Bonacello (filmmaker/performance artist/visionary/healer) In person!
Eisenstein
meets Bunuel at Craters of the Moon.16mm black and white, live action/animation...sci-fi
mid-life lesbian erotica/manifesto... from the dark side...opens Jan 1,
2012, the year mystics predict dramatic change, the end of the last 5000
year cycle and birth of the next...Special thanks to Alex Souldancer, Penny
Rand, Scarlot Harlot, and Jane Kaufman. Richard and Laurel Pflaum...Christine
Panushka and Dr William Moritz...and Jan Svenkmajor...(29 min.-2001)
2 PM Saturday, May 23rd
XXX Animation for Grown-Ups w/ Live Music by the Sprocket Ensemble
The first part of that show will be an hour of animated 35mm with live music provided by the Sprocket Ensemble. Academy award winner (1983, Sundae in NY) Jimmy Picker is flying in from greater Flatbush to screen The Age of Ignorance (22 min., 35mm widescreen).
4
PM, Saturday, May 24th
Smut
Fest
Jennifer
Blowdryer (Director/Producer)-In Person!
Patti
Kaplan (Segment Producer)
Sexy,
sensational and smarter than you, Jennifer Blowdryer's Smut Fest is anarchy
Burlesque, a mindful indulgence from 20 erotic performers. "Get inside
Annie Sprinkle as she takes you on a tour of her cervix. Experience the
erotic horror of Kembra Pfahler and the seductive elegance of Bill Madley.
Edited at Bat Cave and Artist's Television Access. (60 min.-2000)
Miss
Erochica's Burlesque Diary
Erochia
This
photojournal captures Miss Erochica's yearning for the nostalgic,
romantic world of burlesque. This video was recently screened in Taiwan
during the exhibition in honor of the licensed prostitutes. Erochica is
an illustrator, dancer and sex worker rights activist. She will be attending
the festival and performing at the closing party on Sunday night! (Japan,
7 min-2000- revision 2003)
48
Positions for Making Love
BuBu
de la Madeleine
Performance
artist and sex worker activist, Bubu teaches ecstatic contortions.
(11 min .- 2003)
6
PM, Saturday May 24th
Rub
and Tug
Soo
Lyu (Director/Writer)
Edward
Stanulis (Producer/Writer)
Directorial
debut of Soo Lyu, who moved to Canada from South Korea 10 years ago. Soo
Lyu spent close to a year researching masseuses and their stories in preparation
for this unique treatment of the sex industry. This comedic drama inherits
both informative and entertaining qualities of this little known subculture.
The filmmakers portray a comedic look at the real issues and activities
that take place at a full body massage parlor in Canada. Issues of immigration,
force, and abuse are addressed in unique ways, moving beyond stereotypes.
Starring Lindy Booth, Tara Spencer-Nairn and Kira Clavell and Don
McKellar. Screened at Toronto International Film Festival, Vancouver International
Film Festival, Women's Film Festival in Seoul (Korea) and many more. (Canada,
35 mm, 90 min.-2002)
A
Different Kind of Hustle
Lela
May Klein (Director)
Beth
O'Brien (Cinematographer)
This
short film was shot on a 16 mm Bolex, explores the life of Sarah, young
mother from rural New York, as she negotiates the often-bumpy terrain of
her life as a Cornell student and an exotic dancer. This non-sync
documentary is the first film by director Lela Klein who supported herself
as a phone sex-operator, and made the film as a way to explore her own
dual identity as a sex worker and college student. Lela is also a union
organizer with United Auto Workers Local 2300, now writing her thesis on
sex workers in Hollywood film in the 80's and 90's. (12 min.-2002)
8-10:30 PM Saturday, May 24th
Sex
Worker Sinema Awards
The
San Francisco Sex Worker Film and Video Festival and Good Vibrations are
co-sponsoring the Sex Worker Sinema Awards to recognize those who have
contributed to new directions in sexual expression and representation,
developing genres including sex from women’s perspective, queer and tranny
art porn, home video porn and more. We would also like to recognize those
who have contributed to all genres in sex worker sinema from documentary
to experimental to narrative, using imagination and courage as they portray
sex workers, or deliver work that is informed by their own experiences
on the sexual frontiers. Awards will also be given to attending activist/artists
who have contributed to the development of sex workers' rights and expression
including Margo St. James, Mirha-Soleil Ross, Norma Jean Almodovar, and
many more. Burlesque artist, Erochica and Rosinha (and her Sexy Saxophone!),
our international guests will entertain along with hosts Annie Sprinkle,
Carol Queen and Scarlot Harlot.
10:30
Pm Saturday, May 24th
Yapping
Out Loud: Contagious Thoughts of an Unrepentant Whore (74 min)
Mirha-Soleil
Ross (Writer/performer)
Nicole
Stamp (Associate Director); Reena Katz (Live Score) Mark Karbusicky (Video
Environment)
Yapping
Out Loud synthesizes and summarizes a decade of transsexual and sex worker
political and aesthetic development, reflection, and knowledge in a form
that is simultaneously both performance art and activist pedagogy. In Yapping
Out Loud, Ross delivers a series of blows in monologue form at anti-prostitution
discourses and campaigns, detailing the way they impact, often tragically,
on prostitutes‚ working conditions and lives.
She
notes: When we examine the conceptions that the government, law enforcement
agencies, social workers, feminists, residents‚ groups, and serial killers
have of prostitution, we get a message that is frighteningly cohesive:
prostitutes are to be silenced, controlled, confined or else eliminated.
Saturday,
May 24th
Midnight
Vulva Festival
Hot
and Bothered
Becky
Goldberg
Hot
and Bothered: feminist pornography takes a rare and empowering look into
the pornography industry and feminist community to see how they intertwine
within the politics and poetics of female sexuality. This is surely the
hottest treatise on feminist porn (a popular new genre). It shows women
who own their sexuality and courageously employ explicit cinema to inspire
lust! These women are committed to making and supporting pornography that
includes their feminist values and will go up against an entire industry,
stereotypes, and sexism to get what they want. Who better to claim the
adult industry for themselves than the women it depends on?
Starring
Greta Christina (Blowfish.com), Jane Hamilton, Jackie Strano and Shar Rednour
(Sir Video) Jen, Paige and Jeff (Fabula Magazine) Nina Hartley, Sharon
Mitchell and Tristan Taormino.www.feministpornography.com (40 min.-2002)
Best
of Vulva Massage
Joseph
Kramer, Ph.D.,
The
New School of Erotic Touch
The
Best of Vulva Massage is a DVD/video anthology of erotic touch from sex
educators, Tantra teachers, ecstatics, orgasm coaches, erotic bodyworkers,
and sacred intimates. I have selected eight of the most astonishing vulva
massage video segments ever filmed. Now, in one DVD or video, you
can experience vulva wisdom from the following erotic pioneers: Betty
Dodson, Kenneth Ray Stubbs, Annie Sprinkle, Jack Painter, Joseph Kramer,
Deborah Anapol, Suzie Heumann, Deborah Sundahl, Carol Queen, Robert Lawrence,
Juliet Anderson, Victor Gold and Jwala. Directed and Produced by Joseph
Kramer, PhD. Art Direction and Editing by Carol Leigh AKA Scarlot Harlot.
This stimulating collection offers the full spectrum of vulva touch: lovemaking
with a partner, self-loving, ritual healing, genital therapy, sex coaching
and good old fashioned pleasuring. www.eroticmassage.com (Video 83 minutes,
DVD 4 hrs.-2003)
Special
Screenings at the Roxie All day
Sunday
May 26th
2,4,
6, 8 and 10 PM
The
Sex and Surgery of Stacy Valentine
The
Fabulous Roxie Cinema will co-present a popular sex worker doc that is
a must see for those curious about the nuts and bolts of the porn industry,
portrayed through the life of Stacy Valentine.
The
Girl Next Door
Christine
Fugate (Director)
The
Girl Next Door is an intimate and humanizing look into the rise to fame
of adult film superstar Stacy Valentine. The wheels were set in motion
when Stacy's then-husband, to satisfy his own sexual fantasy, urged his
Oklahoma housewife, Stacy Baker, to submit her photograph to Gallery Magazine's
amateur pictorial competition, voyeuristically named, "The Girl Next Door."
Easily winning this contest, Stacy was soon gracing the cover of Hustler
magazine and accepting offers to perform in X-rated films. Within months,
Stacy Baker had the money and confidence she needed to escape her abusive
marriage and head for Hollywood. The Girl Next Door is the conflicting
story between Stacy Baker and the world of pornography, and Stacy Valentine
and her desire for true love. Stacy allows us to experience the exotic
world of pornography through the eyes of a former housewife from Oklahoma.
(83 min.-2003)